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Reality is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and how They Can Change the World

Paperback • 2011 • English

Reality is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and how They Can Change the World

By Jane McGonigal

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About the book

More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person in the UK will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. What's causing this mass exodus? According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal the answer is simple: videogames are fulfilling genuine human needs. Drawing on positive psychology, cognitive science and sociology, Reality is Broken shows how game designers have hit on core truths about what makes us happy, and utilized these discoveries to astoni...Show more

Sociology
Social research and statistics
Sociology: sport and leisure

Book details

ISBN

9780224089258

Publisher

Jonathan Cape

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Reality is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and how They Can Change the World

Format

Paperback

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